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A  progressive  physician  has  said:  "Place  at  my  disposal  a 
hundred  thousand  dollars  and  I  will  speedily  stop  vivisection," 
his  thought  being  to  build  an  attractive  Hospital  wherein  satisfac- 
torily to  demonstrate  the  success  of  healing  methods  other  than 
those  resulting  from  animal  experimentation. 

"What  better  than  serum!  What  better  than  the  knife?  are 
grave  questions  worthy  of  the  anti-vivisectioni^^t's  earnest  con- 
sideration. 

Fortunes  are  expended  annually  in  the  study  of  Disease,  and 
to  the  ever  ready  service  of  dentist,  oculist  and  physician  that  of 
surgeon  is  now  frequently  added. 

True  it  is  our  specialists  have  gained  world-wide  renown. 
This,  however,  is  not  progress  to  be  desired.  Better  ten  thou- 
sand times  the  health  that  dispenses  with  their  services. 

These  provisions  for  needed  relief  mark  a  retrograde  move- 
ment indicative  of  the  impaired  conditions  under  which  we  seem 
content  to  live. 

Even  if  the  Laboratory  shed  a  true  light  (instead  of  a  false 
one)  should  we  not  be  most  reluctant  to  profit  thereby?  And 
can  we  decry  Laboratory  practices  if  we  voluntarily  fly  for  relief 
for  our  self-imposed  ills  to  results  so  cruelly  gathered    therefrom? 

Is  not  the  astonishing  technique  of  the  up-to-date  surgeon, 
whose  blade  is  in  ready  service  to  cut  off  and  cut  out,  gained  on 
living  laboratory  subjects?  And  are  not  drugs  on  which  medical 
practice  so  largely  depends  laboratory  -  brewed  and  laboratory- 
tested? — these  serums  the  study  of  which  holds  the  fascinated 
experimenter  in  his  torment-chamber  and  retards  true  progress 
because  diverting  attention  from  wiser,  more    rational  methods. 

Just  how  much  difference  is  there  between  him  who  inflicts 
and  us  who  make  use  of  results  of  the  barbarous  system  we 
strive  to  expose  and  abolish? 

What  better  way  can  we  find  to  help  vivisectible  animals 
than  to  show  forth  the  paucity  of  results,  the  failures  and  dan- 
gers incident  to  the  systems  for  whose  sake  alone  the  Laborator- 
ies are  maintained  in  full  operation. 


Man  irill  hare  VI ri. section  i./  he  thinks  it  trill  hclji  him.  Re- 
striction save  rnt  an  educational  factor  has  proved  hut  a  dead-letter 
mocemeiit.  The  hope  for  our  cause  must  lie  i)t  prorimj  a  more 
successful,    a    more   rational  sricnre. 

A  writtT  ill  the  ••' lioston  Transcript"  vospondinjj;  to  claims 
jiut  forth  by  Dr.  C'vrtis  Edson  regarding  seniin  cnrcs,  eni- 
l)liasizes  llie  fact  tliat  Pasteurism  is  now  "  a  by-word  among 
investigators"  and  its  principle  is  "denounced  l)y  tlie  leading 
scientific  men  of  the  world  who  have  carefully  looked  into  its 
merits;"  that  the  ''antiseptic  treatment  of  Lister  is  steadily 
yielding  to  Tait's  method  of  simple  cleanliness;"  that  "many 
bacteria  once  thought  to  be  injurious  are  now  known  to  be 
healthful  in  tlieir  influence  ;"  (bacteria  which,  notwithstanding  the 
in(iuisitorial  torments  inflicted,  still  remains  debatable  ground;) 
that  "  in  spite  of  the  much  vaunted  serum  cure  for  the  plague 
the  death  rate  iu  India  where  it  is  constantly  used  is  constantly 
increasing — Indian  medical  otlicers  speaking  of  it  as  useless." 

Dr.  Edson  speaks  of  the  "honor  of  having  found  the  anti- 
toxin for  Dii)htheria,"  but  the  writer  refers  to  a  meeting  of  the 
New  York  Mcdii-al  Association  (April  l»th,  1900)  where  Doctors 
Winters,  Hupp  and  Herman,  who  for  years  have  been  investigat- 
ing the  results  of  the  serum,  came  forward  with  overwhelming 
proofs  of  its  uselessness  and  injurious  etTects.  The  President, 
Dr.   AVeir,  said  "  none  of  the  serums  had  proved  satisfactory." 

In  an  article  read  before  the  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine, 
^lay  21,  180G,  Dr.  Joseph  E.  AVinters  gives  the  names  of  thir- 
teen additional  doctors,  (mentioning  the  Hospitals  with  which 
they  are  connected),  who,  once  earnest  advocates  of  the  serum 
treatment  in  Diphtheria,  now  with  more  extensive  experience  have 
from  conviction  become  opposed  to  it. 

Recent  statistics  state  that  in  New  York,  a  stronghold  of 
medical  practice,  forty  thousand  persons  die  every  year  of  tuber- 
culosis alone.  It  has  been  estimated  that  iu  the  United  States 
seven  hundred  million  dollars  are  spent  annually  to  keep  our- 
selves in  repair. 

Excessive  study  in  Pathology  (life  in  abnormal  phases)  marks 
the  medical  course  ;  whereas  Physiology  (life  in  its  normal  posi- 
tive state)  will  in  the  future  claim  absorbing  attention.  Health 
colleges  are  greatly  needed  whose  course  shall  include  (as 
valuable  knowledge)  questions  of  diet  and  hygiene,  and  all  that 
pertains  to  live  issues. 

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Medical  Journals,  the  shifting  scene  of  one  unsuccessful 
remedy  after  another — dealing  with  poisonous  drugs — to  the  patient 
often  more  harmful  than  the  disease  they  are  given  to  combat ! 

Health  Journals,  buo^^ant  with  hope  and  self-help — offering 
new  lines  of  thought  for  true,  wholesome  living  ;  for  the  renewing 
of  muscle  and  constitutional  integritj^ ! 

Authorities  estimate  that  in  the  German  Empire  there  are  six 
million  advocates  of  Nature  Cure,  the  membership  of  the  Asso- 
ciation having  increased  until  in  1896  it  numbered  four  hundred 
clubs  with  over  fifty  thousand  members — the  object  being  "The 
cure  of  disease  and  the  preservation  and  increase  of  health." 
Germany  has  seventy-eight  periodicals  advocating  ISTatural  Heal- 
ing Methods,  with  an  aggregate  of  over  a  million  subscribers. 

And  here  we  may  mention  our  own  Health  Magazine,  "Phy- 
sical Culture,"  whose  vigorous  editor,  once  weak  and  ailing,  now 
sends  forth  to  others  the  glad  gospel  of  self-help  and  self -cure, 
which  (five  cents  a  cop}')  has  already  obtained  a  phenomenal 
welcome. 

Naturists  claim  that  sickness  is  due  to  one  or  all  of  the  fol- 
lowing causes :  Absorption  of  injurious  material  in  food  or  in 
drugs ;  the  undue  retention  of  effete  products  in  the  system ; 
lowering  of  the  vital  force.  They  claim  there  is  one  disease 
oul}' — namely  :  that  of  impurity — in  which  all  others  have  their  rise 
and  continuance,  masquerading  and  manifesting  under  guise  of 
various  symptoms  and  names,  according  to  the  chance  locality  of 
its  appearing.  Nature  Science,  believing  that  disease  is  the  result 
of  impure  deposits,  and  attributing  to  the  system  the  "automatic 
faculty  of  self-cure,  has  as  its  object  to  aid  the  system  to  purify 
and  repair  itself — (easilj'  accomplished  in  incipient  disorder)  — 
dispensing  with  drugs  and,  save  in  rarest  exceptions,  also  with 
knife. 

Nature  with  her  benign  purpose  of  working  ever  towards 
recovery  and  self-restoration — maintaining  .a  just  balance  between 
waste  and  repair,  striving  to  be  faithful  to  her  purpose,  baffle 
her  as  we  may  ! 

What  earthly  surgeon  could  accomplish  Nature's  almost  in- 
credible feat  of  making  (as  substitute  for  severed  artery)  a  new 
course  for  the  blood  to  run  through? 

"About  one-half  the  food  we  take"  (says  a  medical  writer) 
"  is  manufactured  into  blood  and  there  is  a  corresponding 
amount  of  waste.     If  this  waste    is  not  expelled    by   the    nervous 

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system  as  fast  as  it  accumulates,  poisonous  acids  originate  in  it, 
wiiiclj  in  turn  produce  most  of  the  cbronic  diseases  from  which 
we  suffer;"  —  showing  that  the  maintenance  of  normal  health 
requires  that  the  nervous  system  shall  be  kept  suflicieutly  strong  to 
keep  this  waste  passing  off. 

"  He  who  will  explain  "  (says  Seton  Thompson)  "  the  house 
sparrow's  exemption  from  bacteriological  infection,  the  white  bear's 
freedom  from  troubles  that  we  attribute  to  uric  acid  in  the  blood,  or 
the  buffalo's  and  tiamingo's  immunity  from  the  deadliest  malaria — is 
ou  the  way  to  conferring  like  immunity  in  man." 

Is  it  not  that  disease-breeding  conditions  are  non-existing  in  tlie 
animals' system,  owing  to  equalized  waste  and  repair? — their  food, 
(scant  provision  to  satisfy  keenest  hunger)  obtained  only  after  long 
search  and  activity.  Is  not  tliis  the  animal's  phj'sical  salvation? 
Wild  animals,  we  learn,  die  from  old  age  or  sudden  death  only. 
AVhereas  man  so  irresistibly'  tempted  with  his  luxurious  board,  given 
over  to  sedentar}'  habit,  sows  daily  the  seeds  of  disorder,  and  the 
system  inactive  becomes  a  fit  rendezvous  for  all  diseases  wliicii  need 
imperfection  to  feed  on.  On  many  a  tombstone  the  inscription  must 
read:  "Broken  health,  with  slow  suicidal  intent,"  whereas  with 
intelligent  care  man  should  attain  almost  the  century  mark — substi- 
tuting for  Shakspeare's  dreaded  description  an  old  age  full  of  vigor, 
in  enjoyment  of  natural  faculties  and  gifts. 

The  splendid  races  whose  physical  well-being  we  well  might 
envy,  resplendent  in  health  and  vigor,  capable  of  immense  endurance, 
making  it  easy  for  them,  as  in  Soutliern  Mexico,  for  instance,  to 
carry  a  load  of  a  huudrcd  or  a  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  over  the 
worst  roads  more  tlian  twenty  miles  a  day  —  their  only  food  boiled 
maize  sweetened  with  sugar — would  stand  aghast  at  the  incredible 
sums  of  money  which,  as  a  people,  we  annually  expend  to  re-enforce 
our  health.  Their  bodies  perfectly  nourished,  normal  vitality,  hard 
worked,  simplicity-loving  ;  their  perfect  digestion  enabling  them  to 
extract  from  their  meagre  fare  the  deep  buried  nourishment  needed, 
they  bid  defiance  to  ailments  which  make  captives  of  us.  To  them 
the  knife,  the  poison  drug  and  serum  would  not  afford  an  enticing 
picture  of  our  advancing  progress,  proving  rather  a  startling  expon- 
ent of  our  physical  deterioration. 

The  tale  of  our  transgressions  is  easily  told.  "We  have  done 
those  things  we  should  not :  leaving  nndone  those  we  should  do. 
In  simpler  life  and  thought  must  be  found  the  remedy,  with  an  activity 
of  body  not  outdone  by  activity  of  mind.     This  will  be  the  message 

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of  the  new  Life  _Scienee  wiiose-  ever  widening  scope  will  include  pre- 
vention— sanitation — re-creation.  Its.  Board  of  Health  will  inoCulate 
not  with  noxious  preparation  from  disease-saturated  animals,  but 
with  purity,  sunshine  and  oxygen ;  and  penetrating  every  dwelling 
will  bestow  disease-destroying,  health-conferring  benefits  upon  the 
people.  Only. a  few  earnest  listeners  have  as  yet  caught  the  strains 
of  the  divine  harmony  which  the  Goddess  of  Health  is  prepared  to 
offer  those  anxious  to  welcome  her.  Rich  her  message  for  the  pres- 
ent, but  secrets  of  exceeding  blessing  are  locked  within  her  silent 
keeping  to  reward  the  Truth-seeker  of  the  future. 

.Shameful  the  cruelties  imposed  on  the  calf;  shameful  those 
imposed  on  the  dog. 

Pasteur's  inoculations  of  rabic  virus  inserted  into  the  brain  of 
the  animal,  (virus  produced  from  the  frenzied  brain  of  another), 
doomed  to  endure  for  days  the  torments  of  induced  hydrophobia,  are 
familiar  to  all.  In  blessed  contrast  to  which  we  may  mention  the 
humane  Buisson  Bath  whose  cleansing  process  has,  after  long-tried 
experience  in  India  and  elsewhere,  proved  its  immediate  preventive 
and  curative  virtue. 

Not  in  Hydrophobia  alone  but  in  other  affections,  such  as  lock- 
jaw, hot  water  and  hot  water  alone,  scientifically  prescribed,  is  doing 
its  sanative  duty. 

To  gather  vaccine  the  process  is  this  :  In  one  laboratory  men- 
tioned one  hundred  and  fifty  cuts  are  made  on  the  calf — on  the 
shaved  abdomen — the  animal  having  been  firmly  secured  to  a  tilting- 
table  made  for  the  purpose.  Into  each  incision  the  lymph  is  rubbed 
in  with  a  lancet.  Proper  time  intervening  the  calf  is  again  bound 
down,  each  sore  or  vesicle  is  clamped,  the  virus  is  scraped  off  and 
then  is  ready  for  sale  and  for  use. 

Such  cruel  procedure  must  make  us  loyally  welcome  the  glad, 
and  sufficing  gospel  of  hygiene,  which  scientifically  applied  purified, 
the  cities  of  Leicester  (in  England),  and  Cleveland,  Ohio — whichi 
cities  at  the  time  were,  and  had  been,  small-pox  infested  ;  thorough 
vaccination  having  been  long  enforced  and  its  assumed  virtue 
exhaustively  tried,  but  when  weighed  in  a  critical  balance,  vaccina- 
tion was  found  to  be  totally  unavailing,  the  plague  spot  getting 
larger  and  larger  !  In  both  these  cities  (see  Arena  for  April,  1902)  „ 
sanitation  systematically  enforced  wiped  out  the  scourge,  and  so^ 
effectual  the  result  not  even  the  dread  of  its  re-appearance  remained. 

In  the  New  York  Herald  (August  8th)  we  read  that  the  Harlem 
Hospital  surgeons  were  elated  over  the  discharge  from  that  institu- 

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tion  of  a  lock-jaw  patient  after  twenty-six  days'  treatment  of  serum 
inoculations  into  the  spinal  cord.  The  boy's  front  teeth  (we  are 
told)  were  knocked  out  in  order  to  insert  a  tube  through  which 
to  give  needed  nourishment.  On  the  fifteenth  day  the  jaw  relaxed 
and  the  boy  was  able  to  take  a  little  nourisliment. 

In  strong  contrast  to  the  above,  the  following,  taken  from  the 
"  North  American,"  has  special  interest. 

"Lock-jaw  is  a  contraction  of  the  muscles.  The  remedy  is  the 
relaxing  of  the  same.  lu  view  of  the  many  dying  in  this  country 
of  lock-jaw  it  seems  my  duty  to  relate  how  I  cured  my  daughter 
four  years  ago.  .  .  .  Her  jaws  were  set  and  the  muscles  of  her 
throat  were  contracted.  I  hastily  prepared  a  hot  water  bath.  .  .  . 
I  kept  her  in  this  bath  about  one  hour.  In  a  half  hour  she 
could  move  her  jaws.  In  one  hour  she  could  eat,  talk,  laugh,  and 
was  apparently  well.  I  kept  her  jaws  well  protected  with  a  cloth, 
and  kept  her  in  a  warm  room  for  several  days,  as  the  secret  of  the 
cure  is  warmth  aud  moisture,  and  she  is  a  living  example  of  the  hot 
water  cure."  The  writer  adds  :  "  Stay  in  bath  a  long  time.  Keep 
water  hot  and  jaws  submerged,  putting  cotton  in  ears,  and  lie  on 
side.  Afterward  apply  a  mild  drawing  plaster  to  the  wound  to  draw 
out  inflammation." 

Kindly  note  that  under  the  simple  hot  water  treatment  in  half 
an  hour  smiles  and  assured  convalescence  rewarded  the  paternal 
doctor  and  in  one  hour  the  patient  eating,  laughing,  talking,  was 
apparently  well,  whereas  under  serum  inoculation  the  surgeons  were 
surprised  that  on  the  fifteenth  day  their  patient's  jaw  relaxed  and 
he  was  able  to  take  nourishment,  being  discharged  as  cured  August 
7th — eleven  days  later. 

Proving  all  things — holding  fast  to  that  which  is  good  ! 

"  Facial  Diagnosis  "  (Louis  Kiihne,  the  author)  presents  to  the 
reader  a  standard  of  Health  with  suggestive  ideas  of  great  interest, 
illustrated  as  it  is  with  noble  ideals  of  perfection  in  beauty,  physical 
development  and  health,  including  relative  measurements  of  height, 
size,  weight,  poise  and  strength. 

By  facial  diagnosis  the  physician  may  discover  through  the  false 
lines  of  the  jaw,  the  face,  the  neck,  corresponding  abnormalities 
which  exist  in  the  system,  and  is  able  to  forewarn  against  premoni- 
tory ailment  or  incipient  disaster,  thus  making  his  science  one  to 
prevent  as  well  as  to  cure.  To  his  searching  eye  the  least  "devia- 
tion" means,  unless  corrected,  a  "  premier  pas"  in  the  direction  of 

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exi],  betokening  incipient  weakness  in  spine,  lungs  or  digestion,  and 
promptly  discovered,  Nature's  just  claim  is  only  dismissed  on  pledge 
of  bettered  conditions.  Would  that  beneath  the  keen  eye  of  such 
diagnostician  could  be  placed  every  child  in  our  land,  making  it  that 
oculists,  dentists,  and  all  other  specialists,  could  by  such  timely  fore- 
warning be  easily  dispensed  with. 

The  consistent  vegetarian  will  not  eat  meat.  The  consistent 
Temperance  worker  touches  not,  handles  not — only  in  rarest  exception 
would  duty  direct  otherwise.  But  we  anti-vivisectionists  ?  Let  us 
be  diligent  to  hasten  the  hour  when  we  also  may  wear  upon  our 
bi'east-plate  the  rare  jewel  of  consistency  lest  our  ready  acceptance 
of  ill-gotten  gain,  increasing  demand  and  supply,  shall  condemn  to 
surgical  technique  or  drug-testing  torment  the  living  material  we 
strive  to  protect. 

The  Laboratory  system,  spending  its  millions  in  its  secret 
star-chamber  endeavoring  to  find  the  germs  of  disease,  manufacturing 
and  testing  disease-made  corruption,  too  absorbed  in  its  search  for 
the  microbe  to  note  predisposing  conditions  which  invite  germ  propa- 
gation ! 

The  accepted  methods:  tonics  to  brace  us  (an  inflated  basis) 
sleeping  draughts  for  insomnia,  deadening  narcotics  to  relieve  us  of 
pain  ;  combating  one  threatened  disease  by  imposing  another ;  for 
overtaxed  nerves  (needing  rest  and  repair)  a  stimulant  ordered ; 
old  age  prematurely  invited,  intestinal  disturbance  calling  for  knife, 
€olds  I'unning  into  pneumonia,  heart  failure  and  death  quite  often 
the  victor.  Nine  hundred  persons  in  a  million,  only,  it  is  said,  die 
of  old  age. 

The  surgical  parlance  which  pronounces  operations  "  success- 
ful "  unless  death  ensues  omits  to  mention  the  shattered  conditions 
often  remaining  from  anaesthetics  and  shock,  which  afterwards  follow 
the  patient  for  years  and  sometimes  for  life.  Thank  God  for  the 
speedy  relief  of  the  humauer  Science. 

Nature  Cure  reverently  asking,  '  How  best  to  take  out  of  our 
path  the  problems  which  vex  us.  How  best  to  maintain  a  reserve 
vital  power  with  physical  stamina  unhindered,  whose  motto  is  :  Not 
more  poison  but  less  ;  not  more  impurity  but  to  cast  out  that  already 
existing  ;  not  added  disease  or  drug  injury  but  to  loosen  the  grip  of 
that  which  alread}'-  encumbers — to  preserve  and  not  to  destroy  ! ' 

Nature  Cure  has  on  honorable  record  many  remarkable  cures 
made  on  despair-stricken  invalids  on  whom  medicine  and  surgery 
had  in  vain  expended  their  best  endeavor.     It  includes  all  healing 

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methods    which   aid   tlie  system  to  solf-cuiv  Ity  poison  elimination, 
renewed  vital  force  and  restored  eirenlation. 

Among  ''natnre  assisted"  methods  may  he  mentioned:  Water 
Cnre — inclnding  Food  Reform  and  the  deep  searching  processes  of 
skin  elimination — whose  distingnished  clientele  unmbers  .many  of 
Enrope's  elite  as  its  followers  ;  the  "  no  breakfast"  cure — a  merciful 
plan  for  cruelly  taxed  digestive  apparatus,  whose  telegraphic  com- 
munications record  its  messages  of  idiopathic  distress  in  apparently 
irrelevant  members  ;  the  IJuisson  or  vapor  bath,  the  great  purifier; 
the  occult  or  diaphramic  system  of  breathing,  in  great  favor  in  India, 
vivifying  the  blood  and  sending  its  sanative  influence  to  the  ''  brain- 
stomach," — the  solar  plexus  ;  the  X-ray  and  the  Finsen  Light,  used 
in  consumption  and  tuberculosis;  Mental  Healing,  not  always  mes- 
meric or  hypnotic,  whose  theory,  when  understood,  seems  simple  and 
scientific,  namely,  that  an  influence  from  the  mind  of  the  Healer 
rouses  into  renewed  activity  some  dormant,  unrecognized  spiritual 
power. 

Not  by  faith  or  expectant  attention  comes  this  renewal  of  life's 
forces  ;  not  by  touch  of  the  hand  save  to  secure  more  concentrated 
attention.  No  greater  marvels  have  ever  been  wrought  on  long  suffer- 
ing invalids  than  those  due  to  mental  curative  influence ;  mental 
anaesthesia  (doubtless  its  ally)  with  quieting  power  eijual  to  that  of 
ether  or  chloroform,  which  tlrugs  may  well  whisper  needed  warning  of 
caution  and  danger  ;  Osteopathy,  the  aggressive  young  science,  diag- 
nosing and  working  along  original  lines  of  its  own,  whose  successful 
anatomists  are  skilful  enough  to  i-estore  to  atrophied  limb  lost  vigor 
and  power,  casting  quickly  aside  the  prevailing  surgical  appliance  of 
plaster  and  brace,  which  impede  circulation  ;  whose  deftly  trained 
fingers  passed  over  the  spine  (a  region  usually  ignored)  can  quickly 
detect  in  what  they  term  ''deviation"  or  "  mal-adjustment,"  con- 
cealed causes  of  battling  disorders — ensuing  relief  proving  the  skill 
of  the  osteopathic  physician — cures  due  to  the  healing  touch  of 
restored  vital  power  and  renewed  circulation. 

Not  in  outward  helps  but  in  ourselves  ;  not  in  vicarious  sacrifice 
but  in  individual  reform  nuist  be  found  the  cure  for  our  distresses. 

Inoculation  with  diseased  blood  of  animals  is  as  far  from  the 
highest  truth  as  would  be  the  use  of  an  odorous  i>erfume  to  deaden  a 
plague  spot  that  needed  purification. 

"Bacteriology,  if  it  lives,"  (says  the  Medical  Brief)  "will 
assume  a  distinctively  subordinate  place  in  medicine.  Men  will 
cease  to  fear  and  fight  germs.  All  one's  weapons  will  be  leveled  at 
the  conditions  which  breed  them." 

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Greatly  needed  in  every  University  a  chair  for  the  '■''Study  of 
Healtli-promoting  conditions,"  Tvhich  in  contrast  to  the  Universal 
Study  of  "  Bacteriology  and  Disease  "  shall  illumine  the  dark  maze 
of  ills  that  civilization  imposes — a  department  of  Nature  Research, 
(and  it  may  well  be  a  National  Department  also)  whose  object  shall 
be  the  "  Comparative  study  of  law-abiding  conditions"  under  which 
different  nations  have  attained  the  highest  standard  of  physical  well- 
being. 

"  In  some  industries,"  says  a  recent  writer,  "  a  workman  is  not 
efficient  after  forty-live,  and  his  children  never  efficient  because 
inheriting  a  spent  constitution !  "  Would  that  every  Laboratory 
could  be  turned  into  a  Temple  of  Comparative  Research,  that  therein 
could  be  reflected  as  in  a  mirror  the  preventable  ills  which  afflict 
humanity. 

Marked  the  discontent  freely  expressed  by  medical  writers. 

Professor  Jamieson,  of  Edinburgh,  says:  "Nine  times  out  of 
ten  our  miscalled  remedies  are  absolutely  injurious  to  our  patients." 

"  Of  all  the  iuexact  sciences,  therapeutics  is  probably  at  the 
present  day  the  most  iuexact,"  says  a  writer  in  the  London  Lancet. 

"That  medical  practice"  (writes  Dr.  R.  E.  Dudgeon  to  the 
Abolitionist) ,  "has  improved  greatly  during  the  last  half  century  is 
not  owing  to  the  experiments  of  vivisectors,  but  chiefly  to  the  dis- 
continuance of  many  evil  practices  which  were  in  full  swing  at  the 
beginning  of  that  period.  I  refer  to  bleeding  by  lancet,  by  leeches, 
and  by  cupping,  blisters,  setons  and  drastic  purgation.  It  was 
not  vivisection  that  led  to  the  cessation  of  those  disastrous  methods, 
but  the  persistent  teaching  of  a  small — and  at  flrst  discredited — 
body  of  men  within  the  medical  profession." 

Says  another  physician  (Dr.  John  jNFason  Goode)  :  "Medicines 
have  destroyed  more  lives  than  war,  pestilence  and  famine  combined." 

Says  another  (Dr.  Evans,  F.R.vS.,  of  London)  :  "The  medical 
practice  of  our  day  has  neither  philosophy  nor  common  sense  to 
commend  it  to  confidence." 

Says  another  (Dr.  Bostwick,  author  of  a  History  of  Medicine)  : 
"Every  dose  of  medicine  given  is  a  blind  experiment  upon  the 
vitality  of  the  patient." 

Still  another  (Dr.  Ralnage,  F.R.C.,  of  London)  :  "  The  present 
system  of  medicine  is  a  burning  shame  to  its  professors." 

The  claims  so  constantly  put  forth  "  that  studies  in  Biology 
have  done  more  than  anything  else  for  the  bettering  of  humau  health" 
need  a  little  revising  ! 

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if  we  take  the  period  of  twenty  j'ears  from  1.S77  to  18'.)7,  during 
wliicli  vivisection  iuis  hud  fullest  swing  and  biological  science  claims 
to  have  made  its  gieatest  strides — the  niimlter  of  vivisectors  in  Eng- 
land during  this  period  having  increased  from  23  to  22-1 — we  shall 
be  startled  to  lind  that  just  within  these  years  (in  which  vivisec- 
tors claim  their  greatest  honors)  no  less  than  twenty-four  of  the 
worst  scourges  that  afllict  manlvind  have  actually  become  more  fatal ; 
in  some  cases  doul)ly  and  trebly  fatal — experimentation  keeping  pace 
with  the  fatal  increase  of  disease  ;  the  number  of  experiments  in 
1888  being  one  thousand  and  sixty-nine  —  and  in  the  year  1901, 
eleven  thousand  six  hundred  and  forty -Jive — experimenters,  as  we  see, 
having  increased  within  tlie  twenty  years  mentioned  from  23  to  224, 
and  experiments  having  increased  during  the  past  thirteen  years  from 
about  07ie  thousand  to  over  eleven  thousand.  The  Restrictive  Act 
took  effect  in  the  year  187fi. 

The  mortality  table  above  referred  to  (see  Abolitionist,  May, 
1899)  is  taken  from  the  Sixtieth  Report  of  the  Registrar  General, 
and  is  as  follows  : 


DISEASES. 


Diphtheria 

Cholera 

Rickets 

Cancer 

Forms  of  Tuberculosis  other  than  Pul- 
monary and  Scrofula 

Anaemia,  &c 

Diabetes  Mellitus 

Insanity — General  Paralysis  of  Insane 

Chorea  (St.  Vitus'  Dance)    

Paraplegia— Diseases  of  Spinal  Cord . . 
Otitis  (inflamed  Ear)  and  Otorrhoea. . 

Angina  Pectoris 

Senile  Gangrene 

Embolism— Thrombosis 

Pneumonia 

Pleurisy 

Gall  Stones 

Acute  Nephritis 

Bright's  Disease  and  Albuminuria. . . . 
Thyroid  Body  (Disease  of  the) 


Deaths  per 

Million  Persons 

in  Great  Britain 

in  1878. 


Deaths  per 

Million  Persons 

in  Qreat  Britain 

in  1897. 


246 
31 
46 

787 

175 
60 
78 

119 
5 
71 
29 
23 
41 
42 
1122 
48 
14 
73 

265 


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Sir  Frederick  Treves  stated  in  the  British  Medical  Journal, 
November  5,  1898,  that  his  former  vivisections  of  dogs  "had  done 
little  but  unfit "  him  "  to  deal  with  the  human  intestine"  and  that 
in  his  practice  upon  man  he  "had  everything  to  unlearn"  from  his 
experiments  on  dogs. 

Lawson  Tait  defined  Vivisection  as  "crude  in  conception, 
unscientific  in  its  nature  and  incapable  of  being  sustained  by  any 
accurate  or  beneficent  results  applicable  to  man."  The  time  is 
coming  nearer  and  nearer  to  which  he  referred  when  he  said:  "I 
feel  confident  that  before  long  the  alterations  of  opinion  which  I 
have  had  to  confess  in  my  own  case  will  spread  among  the  members 
•of  my  profession." 

Doctor  George  Wilson,  LL.D.,  in  his  recent  address  before  the 
British  Medical  Association,  said:  "After  all  these  long  y^ears  of 
flickering  hope,  I  am  prepared  to  contend  that  the  indiscriminate 
maiming  and  slaughter  of  animal  life,  with  which  these  bacterio- 
logical methods  of  research  and  experimentation  have  been  inseparably 
associated,  cannot  be  proved  to  have  saved  one  single  human  life  or 
lessened  in  au}^  appreciable  degree  the  load  of  human  suffering.  I 
have  ventured  to  make  that  pronouncement  before,  but  in  halting, 
academic  fashion.  I  reiterate  it  here  and  now  with  the  strongest 
and  fullest  conviction." 

The  importance  of  Lord  Coleridge's  entreaty  to  his  followers  not 
to  give  a  penny  to  any  hospital  having  vivisectors  on  its  staff  is 
better  understood  when  we  learn  that  the  London  Anti-vivisection 
Society  has  recently  issued  a  list  of  between  one  and  two  hundred 
hospitals  in  the  United  Kingdom  which,  according  to  the  list  pub- 
lished, employ  vivisectors  —  giving  the  names  of  those  upon  the 
staff. 

The  two  Bills  in  our  own  country,  one  presented  in  Ohio  in 
1894 — one  prepared  in  Indiana  in  1901,  demanding  criminals  for 
vivisection  (because  animals  fail  to  render  satisfactory  results),  seem 
in  their  outrageous  demand  to  savor  of  an  expansive  policy  rather 
than  hoped  for  restrictive  intent. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  National  A nti- Vivisection  Society, 
held  in  St.  James'  G-reat  Hall,  London,  Ma^^,  1902,  was  attended  by  a 
remarkable  audience.  The  Church,  the  Bar,  the  Army  and  Navy 
were  there  represented. 

The  gallant  Admiral,  Sir  W.  Kennedy,  K.C.B.,  expressed  his 
thanks : 

"That  when  my  time  comes,   at  the   day  of  judgment,  what- 

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ever  sins  may  be  charged  against  nie,  at  any  rate  tlioy  will  not  be 
able  to  say  I  was  a  Vivisector." 

Colonel  Loekwood  described  the  movement  to  be  : 

"  One  of  the  most  sacred  and  the  most  holy  that  ever  actuated 
the  breast  of  man." 

The  venerable  Basil  "Wilberforce,  D.D.,  Archdeacon  of  "West- 
minster (from  the  Chair)  delivered  one  of  his  most  telling  denuncia- 
tions. The  Hon.  Stephen  Coleridge,  the  honorary  secretary,  spoke 
at  length  in  his  usually  powerful  strain,  concluding  as  follows  : 

"  From  one  stronghold  to  anotlier  has  cruelty  been  driven  out 
by  an  ever  rising  spirit  of  humanit}',  mercy,  and  loving  kindness. 
Sheltering  itself  now  in  its  most  repulsive  form  behind  those  ancient 
and  glorious  institutions  (hospitals)  founded  and  sustained  for  their 
Christ-like  work  of  healing  the  sick,  sapping  their  foundations,  and 
smirching  their  fair  fame,  malignant  cruelty  has  taken  up  its  ])osition 
in  its  last  ditch.  There  it  has  summoned  to  its  aid  vast  interests, 
ancient  prejudices,  euoi'mous  endowments,  and  under  illustrious 
patronage  it  has  pilfered  the  funds  subscribed  for  the  poor  !  (Shame.) 
But  we  believe  that  it  is  doomed.  Few  though  we  be,  we  believe 
that  we  shall  ultimately  drive  it  out  from  this  its  last  lurking  place, 
for  we  believe  in  mercy,  we  believe  in  loving  kindness,  we  believe  in 
justice  even  to  animals,  we  believe  in  right  conduct,  we  believe  in 
God.  (Loud  cheers.)  Here,  then,  Ave  shall  be  found  year  after 
year,  some  of  us,  as  long  as  we  live,  fighting  this  fight  till  it  be 
won.  Hope  atid  faith  Avill  never  leave  us  while  thousands  gather 
together,  as  they  have  to-night,  and  as  they  do  all  over  P2ugland — 
(cheers) — to  lift  up  their  voices  with  ours  in  ceaseless  protests 
against  these  awful  deeds.  Here  we  stand  for  God's  great  law  of 
love,  and  in  His  own  good  time  He  will  give  us  the  victory  I  "  (Loud 
and  prolonged  cheers) . 

In  no  way,  it  seems  to  me,  can  we  so  effectually  hasten  the  day 
when  this  dark,  inexcusable  crime  shall  disappear  from  the  face  of 
the  earth  as  by  helping  to  solve  the  pressing  question  :  What  better 
than  serum  ?     AVhat  better  than  the  knife  ? 


